I have been divorced for 7 years now. My mother passed away…

Hello. I have been divorced...

Hello. I have been divorced for 7 years now. My mother passed away last year and I will be receiving an inheritance in the near future. My ex wife is under the impression that the inheritance is something to be factored in to my child support payments. I pay my child support based on my income calculated by the Department of Justice I and am of the impression that child support is based exclusively on income. My question is, can my inheritance be a factor in child support payment? My ex wife if insisting that my monthly payment be significantly increased, or a lump sum payment made. Nowhere in the will is my ex wife even mentioned. What is the legal opinion in a matter like this? Many thanks in advance. Andrew

You're right, the child support is based on your income. You pay on the $25K under the guidelines, as you've observed.

In Canada, an inheritance is a windfall, not taxable income, and not income for the purposes of child support.

If you invest the money and your income goes up because of it then with that higher income you'd pay more support. So indirectly an inheritance can bump up the child support. However, we're not talking millions of dollars in an inheritance. Even if you invested $100,000 at 4% return annual (which would be a pretty solid return in this market), your income would then go up by $4000 per year, add that to your other income, and pay support based on that total. But if you used the inheritance to pay off debts then your income wouldn't go up at all.

I asked about the size of the numbers because that's important. Let's say that I inherit a billion dollars and plop it into a chequing account that pays zero interest and I quit my job planning to simply spend from that billion for the rest of my life. Yes, my income is zero. But no judge would say that I should pay no child support.

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